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Not Guilty

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Parent Issue
Day
28
Month
April
Year
1899
Copyright
Public Domain
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NOT GUILTY.

Yesterday a jury declared ex-Senato Quay not guilty of the charge of conspiring to use the funds of the state of Pennsylvania for his own unlawful gain and profit. Immediately after he had been declared not guilty, Gov. Stone appointed him senator. The collapse of the conspiracy case against Quay is a surprise because of the claims made by the prosecution. But in view of the evidence brought out no other verdict was possible. Quay may be said to be completely vindicated of the charge on which he was tried. And this too without the introduction of particle of evidence in his behalf. The case was submitted to the jury on the evidence of the prosecution alone and jury of his peers pronounced the senator not guilty. In other words the prosecution utterly failed to sustain its case. It had no case. The other case against the senator will probably be heard of no more. Relative to Gov Stone's appointment of Quay to the senatorship, it may be said that unless the senate recedes from its record in every similar case in its past history Quay will never take the seat by the governor's appointment. The senate has repeatedly held that such a vacancy as exists in Pennsylvania, where the legislature has been in session and failed to elect, is not such an one as is contemplated by the constitution shall be filled by appointment of the governor. The senate must needs reverse itself before Quay can be seated. This it may do but is scarcely likely to do.